Picco I

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Picco I with tubular frame
Picco I with profile frame

The Picco I is a three-wheeled front tipper from the GDR . The vehicle was also popularly known as the triangular file .

The vehicle was built from 1957 at Brandiser Maschinen- und Apparatebau KG (BMA), the former Bibra factory ( Bi rckenstock Bra ndis ). With the construction of the Picco II from 1959, the production of the Picco I was relocated to VEB Fahrzeugwerk Mölkau , which built the vehicle until around 1970.

construction

The front axle is an air-cooled single cylinder - swirl chamber - diesel engine driven consisting of 735 cc cubic capacity supplies min 8.5 horsepower at a speed of 2300 /. The engine, parts of the axle and the four-speed gearbox, in which the fourth gear was locked, came from the Zittau Robur works .

The tipping skip has a capacity of 0.7 m³. The anti-tipping device is released from the driver's seat using a lever, the trough then unloads by gravity or after sudden braking ( inertia ).

The steering takes place indirectly via a gear transmission to the individual rear wheel. The tubular frame installed at the beginning later gave way to a steel profile frame .

  • Significantly smaller: the monitor lizard

  • Successor: Picco max IV

View of the engine with the skip tilted

Because of the motor placed between the driver and the body, the vehicle is relatively long. With the 2-axle Waran 1500 dumper , which was also built in Mölkau from the second half of the 1960s , this problem was circumvented by placing the driver on the left behind the 0.5 m³ trough and the 15 HP diesel engine on the right .

The successor models Picco II, Picco max III and Picco max IV were designed as 2-axle small dumpers with a rear trough . The trough of the Picco II held 1.5 m³, its successors had a loading volume of 2 m³. The latter have a closed two-man cabin, the roof and rear wall of which were designed as removable tarpaulin for better visibility.

View of the front of the vehicle

Technical specifications

  • Length: 2900 mm
  • Width: 1550 mm
  • Height: 1250 mm
  • Wheelbase : 1900 mm
  • Weight: 950 kg
  • Payload:
    • Terrain: 880 kg
    • Road: 1100 kg

Trivia

At the Koselitz market in 1995 a dumper race was held with three Picco I and four drivers. In the following years, the number of participants grew, other venues were added and since 2003 the German Dumper Championship has been held in several races every year . Some of the triangular files no longer correspond to series vehicles; they have lost their original transport function and have been converted into fun or racing vehicles.

literature

  • Christian Suhr: Type compass - GDR trucks 1945–1990. Motorbuch Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-613-02535-3 .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ VEB vehicle and equipment manufacturing Brandis. In: Schwalbennest.de. Retrieved May 2, 2015 .
  2. ↑ The development of the dumper race. German Dumper Championship, accessed on May 2, 2015 .

Web links

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